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Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986-2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More

https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/hear-the-best-of-angelo-badalamenti-rip-from-1986-2017.html

Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986-2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More

The late Angelo Badalamenti composed music for singers like Marianne Faithfull and Nina Simone, for movies like The City of Lost Children and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and even for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Open Culture
Linette Lopez, a reporter at Business Insider who published important investigations of Tesla and has covered Musk for years, has been suspended.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-faulty-battery-cooling-systems-design-model-s-2012-2019-6 #twitter #twittermigration #twitterexodus #tech #technology #technews #news #journalist
Tesla used faulty battery cooling system design for Model S in 2012, insiders say

In a rush to build the Model S, Tesla ignored the car's flawed battery cooling system design. And it's unclear when, if ever, the company fixed it.

Insider
ICYMI: Trailblazing Black feminist organizer, advocate, and social entrepreneur (before there was such a thing) Dorothy Pittman Hughes who among her many accomplishments co-founded Ms Magazine has died at age 84. May she Rest in Power with the ancestors #blackmastodon #feminism #progressivepolitics #advocacy https://www.essence.com/culture/dorothy-pitman-hughes-obituary/
Feminist Trailblazer Dorothy Pitman Hughes Dies At 84

Pitman Hughes was the co-founder of the Women's Action Alliance and inspired the launch of 'Ms.' magazine. She died last week at 84.

Essence

Anyone… and I mean ANYONE want to hire my #Canadian wife in the United States? We’ll go anywhere.

I need to get back home, and as quickly as possible.

A green card application for us could take 12-20 months. A work visa would be ideal. She is Master’s level educated, works in #Banking w/ #Tech and #ProjectManagement experience.

I am chronically ill and need help asap.

Boosts appreciated.

#jobs #hiring #immigration #UnitedStates

If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…

BREAKING: 2,319 texts from Mark Meadows now public, showing 34 Republican members of Congress texting with him about January 6, the fake electors, and declaring martial law (or "Marshall Law," sic), per Talking Points Memo.

Every single one of them must be held accountable.

I paid a visit to my favourite Beech tree again today. It was misty and cold, but its roots stretched out towards me like a warm, welcoming hand, covered in a carpet of moss

#Trees #Woodland #Beech #Winter #Mosstodon #iPhonePhotography #Photography #Nature

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This week on the docket:

📆Wednesday:
⚖Hearing over manual recount for New York’s 50th State Senate District: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-york-50th-state-senate-district-ballot-counting-challenge-mannion/

⚖Hearing in a case challenging Connecticut's voter-approved constitutional amendment codifying early voting: https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/connecticut-early-voting-ballot-measure-challenge/

🚨 New Filing in Mannion v. Shiroff

Read the latest filing in Mannion v. Shiroff.

Democracy Docket
I’m so confused. Santa has always been Asian. I met him in the internment camps, and he was definitely Japanese.